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WELCOME HOYU ZAZEN ... and Tea Ceremony ...

Hoyu offers a "hello" to everyone from Treeleaf Tsukuba ... then we sat a brief 30 minutes of Zazen, and a little Kinhin. Shokai Richard joined us in the middle. Please sit with us if you have a chance.

We will also had a Tea Ceremony conducted by Hoyu Sensei, which you may still join in at any time ...
Hiyo writes about that ...

For those who are able to sit in on the tea ceremony please feel free to participate at home. If everyone can collect ahead of time (see the screen below) ....
1) a sweet to eat
2) a cup of your favorite tea. Heck, feel free to make it a cup of java if tea isn't your thing!(though I still wish for you at least consider giving tea a try )

Just have them ready and we will instruct you when to eat and drink. Nothing to complicated. Just relax and enjoy

... and our SPECIAL CEREMONY "OFFICIALLY" MARKING THE OPENING OF OUR NEW TREELEAF FORUM AND WEBPAGE (even though it has actually been up and running for a few weeks) and traditional-not-so-traditional MEMORIAL SERVICE TO RETIRE OUR OLD COMPUTER HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE. The ceremony will begin (one hour later than originally planned)...

Our SPECIAL CEREMONY "OFFICIALLY" MARKING THE OPENING OF OUR NEW TREELEAF FORUM AND WEBPAGE and MEMORIAL SERVICE TO RETIRE OUR OLD COMPUTER HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE will begin at the following times(one hour later than originally planned)...

Thank you Hoyu, for my first tea ceremony. It was lovely, although I didn't really need that gi-normous homemade cupcake I had as my sweet!
I was happy to meet your smiling wife, Hoyu, and to see Mina & Sada again, Jundo.
Thank you all for this pleasure.

Thank you all for your kind words
I'm happy that we were all able to share in a bowl of virtual tea together

Here is a little info on the ceremony which was conducted.
It is 1 of 4 Chabako(tea box) procedures created by Gengensai, the 11th iemoto(head of the household for our lineage of tea). Each one of those 4 corresponds to a particular season(winter, spring, summer, and fall). The one I did for everyone is named Unohana(deutzia/blossom) and performed during the summer months.

Thanks a lot, Jundo, for pointing me to this thread!
I have just finished watching the Tea Ceremony (after sitting with the Zazen/Kinhin recording from the first post).
Three words: fascinating, impressive, beautiful!

This was my first Japanese Tea Ceremony. The differences to the Chinese Tea Ceremony (I am still a beginner with only half a year of experience) are huge!

You might laugh, but I have thought about inventing my own coffee/espresso/cappuccino ceremonies - just for kicks. You see, I drink this stuff at least 3 - 4 times a day, so this kind of begs for a practice...
There are no new sutras, so why not invent new ceremonies?